Support: White marble base, with plain mouldings on top and below, broken off at right (w: 0.68 × h: 0.30 × d: 0.535).

Layout: Inscribed in one line on the face (w: 0.61 × h: 0.12 × d: 0.485).

Letters: 0.032; no serifs, smaller theta and omicron, slanting mu and sigma.

Date: Second half of fourth century BC (lettering, prosopography).

Findspot: Found before 1979 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚: plausibly from an unidentified Necropolis.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 and again in 1997 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Théaros fils d'Hermésandros.

English translation

Thearos son of Hermesandros.

Italian translation

Thearos figlio di Hermesandros.

Commentary

This man might be the father of Hermesandros son of Thearos, strategos about 330 BC (IGCyr017100²), and perhaps the grandfather of a son of Thearos, mentionned in IGCyr014800², b.18.

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